Never especially understood the Wilson following - at least the current line. Fabulous bass on many I get that, but nothing at all special about their silk dome. If you want a silk dome that badly, YG does some genuinely interesting things with their billetdome Wilson doesn't come close to achieving. The best Beryillium & Diamond tweeters need to be regarded as somehow inferior a well. The Ab Sound stated David Wison vastly preferred the Beryllium tweeters but could never make them work. No wonder, as their midrange is not anything like SOA & compared to anything ceramic......
I remember hearing a Watt/puppy 7 with a CJ integrated & then the Sasha 1 at a show with Nordost Odin cabling everywhere (it being a Nordost booth) with the very top Dagostino electronics & so on. The transparency of the 7 was so much better to virtually anyone who's heard both it was literally embarrassing. This was not the better midrange & tweeter they ended the series with either. The higher-end silk dome tweeter they make is far better than their lower model but simply doesn't compare to the better tweeters out there. Cabinet materials are exemplary but any back-to-back comparison (7 & saha1 or other competitors out there) will show a massive gap in transparency. Which just doesn't matter to those who like the macho visual aesthetic vibe of the speaker visually & value dynamics above all else, with excellent imaging thrown in. If you're looking for a ballsy Dynaudio alternative, they work, but the reviews do not repeat the "I'm hearing things I never heard before" refrain they kept repeating on the inferior, original chronosonic (compare to the XVX). They are incredibly heavy advertisers & I leave it to you to decide if that made any difference at all in swaying all such reviewer statements.
I remember hearing a Watt/puppy 7 with a CJ integrated & then the Sasha 1 at a show with Nordost Odin cabling everywhere (it being a Nordost booth) with the very top Dagostino electronics & so on. The transparency of the 7 was so much better to virtually anyone who's heard both it was literally embarrassing. This was not the better midrange & tweeter they ended the series with either. The higher-end silk dome tweeter they make is far better than their lower model but simply doesn't compare to the better tweeters out there. Cabinet materials are exemplary but any back-to-back comparison (7 & saha1 or other competitors out there) will show a massive gap in transparency. Which just doesn't matter to those who like the macho visual aesthetic vibe of the speaker visually & value dynamics above all else, with excellent imaging thrown in. If you're looking for a ballsy Dynaudio alternative, they work, but the reviews do not repeat the "I'm hearing things I never heard before" refrain they kept repeating on the inferior, original chronosonic (compare to the XVX). They are incredibly heavy advertisers & I leave it to you to decide if that made any difference at all in swaying all such reviewer statements.